1 00:00:04,580 --> 00:00:08,085 [opening theme playing] 2 00:00:52,723 --> 00:00:55,199 Miss Carter, these l'm taking. 3 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,974 Three 25?s, one 50?, and two _1 ones. 4 00:01:00,103 --> 00:01:04,642 Even Einstein would have to admit that's _3.25. 5 00:01:05,639 --> 00:01:07,208 - Agreed? - Yes. 6 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:08,709 l'll call Mr. Kraft. 7 00:01:08,842 --> 00:01:11,412 So big a deal as this-- 8 00:01:11,542 --> 00:01:13,879 you can't handle it alone, Miss Carter? 9 00:01:14,012 --> 00:01:18,718 Or you think perhaps l have a Shakespeare First Folio here? 10 00:01:18,847 --> 00:01:20,749 [laughs] 11 00:01:20,881 --> 00:01:23,385 No, but you know how Mr. Kraft is. 12 00:01:23,516 --> 00:01:26,254 He's very suspicious of rival bookstore owners. 13 00:01:26,385 --> 00:01:30,224 Joseph Kraft is welcome to buy books in my store. 14 00:01:30,353 --> 00:01:33,156 Why should l not be welcome to buy in his? 15 00:01:33,287 --> 00:01:37,527 l guess it's all right, Mr. Gilfain. May l wrap these for you? 16 00:01:37,657 --> 00:01:40,661 From Joseph Kraft, for _3.25, 17 00:01:40,793 --> 00:01:44,532 l don't expect to get even a-- a paper bag. 18 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,301 [whispering] Kenneth, what are you doing here? 19 00:01:54,433 --> 00:01:55,968 - l've got to talk to you. - [doorbells ding] 20 00:01:56,100 --> 00:01:59,071 lf Mr. Kraft sees you, you're likely to be talking to a policeman. 21 00:01:59,202 --> 00:02:01,606 Besides, l told you-- no more money. 22 00:02:01,738 --> 00:02:04,208 You don't understand. They're gonna cream me if l don't pay up. 23 00:02:04,339 --> 00:02:06,175 l mean really wipe me out. 24 00:02:06,306 --> 00:02:08,042 You should have thought of that a long time ago, 25 00:02:08,174 --> 00:02:11,212 before you ever started playing with professional gamblers. 26 00:02:12,244 --> 00:02:15,481 Oh, nothing tonight, Professor Muntz? 27 00:02:15,612 --> 00:02:17,615 How's that? Oh, no thank you. 28 00:02:17,747 --> 00:02:21,152 l'm strictly a browser after that Izaak Walton l purchased last week. 29 00:02:21,282 --> 00:02:23,818 Ruinous-- simply ruinous. 30 00:02:23,950 --> 00:02:25,619 Good night. 31 00:02:25,751 --> 00:02:27,253 Good night. 32 00:02:28,253 --> 00:02:31,758 Okay, sis, you win. Come visit me at the morgue. 33 00:02:32,989 --> 00:02:35,025 Kenneth, wait. 34 00:02:36,457 --> 00:02:40,029 lt's just that l had to borrow so much from Mr. Kraft, 35 00:02:40,159 --> 00:02:42,229 and each time l have to make up a dimerent story. 36 00:02:42,361 --> 00:02:44,664 But this is the last time, sis. 37 00:02:44,796 --> 00:02:46,331 l promise. 38 00:02:46,463 --> 00:02:48,098 Oh. 39 00:02:48,230 --> 00:02:50,232 After this, no more gambling-- never. 40 00:02:50,365 --> 00:02:52,067 Do you hear me? Do you? 41 00:02:52,199 --> 00:02:53,734 Never. 42 00:03:05,641 --> 00:03:07,744 Thanks, sis. 43 00:03:10,142 --> 00:03:14,182 Miss Carter? Miss Carter, l think l found it. 44 00:03:14,312 --> 00:03:15,646 Found what? 45 00:03:15,779 --> 00:03:17,716 The song for the Mississippi section of my book. 46 00:03:17,848 --> 00:03:19,417 Oh good. 47 00:03:19,549 --> 00:03:22,119 - Would you hold the music for me? - Sure. 48 00:03:22,249 --> 00:03:24,185 Let's give a lesson here. 49 00:03:27,753 --> 00:03:31,191 This train is bound for glory 50 00:03:31,321 --> 00:03:33,290 This train 51 00:03:33,422 --> 00:03:36,426 This train is bound for glory 52 00:03:36,558 --> 00:03:38,795 This train 53 00:03:38,927 --> 00:03:41,363 This train is bound for glory... 54 00:03:41,494 --> 00:03:45,032 - [radio playing classical music] - [singing continues] 55 00:03:52,366 --> 00:03:56,405 This train don't pull no sleepers, this train 56 00:03:56,536 --> 00:03:58,906 This train don't pull no sleepers... 57 00:03:59,038 --> 00:04:00,874 Will you stop that? What do you think this is-- 58 00:04:01,005 --> 00:04:02,907 some kind of comeehouse or beatnik joint? 59 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,245 Now take that instrument and get out. Get out and stay out. 60 00:04:06,374 --> 00:04:09,645 Yes, sir, Mr. Kraft. Yes, sir. 61 00:04:14,713 --> 00:04:16,916 - l'm sorry. - You should be. 62 00:04:17,048 --> 00:04:20,420 - Now turn om the lights and close up. - Yes, Mr. Kraft. 63 00:04:22,084 --> 00:04:23,719 [doorbells ding] 64 00:04:27,153 --> 00:04:29,389 Uh... 65 00:04:29,521 --> 00:04:31,825 Mr. Kraft? 66 00:04:31,957 --> 00:04:35,529 You remember that money l said l might need for my landlady's-- 67 00:04:35,658 --> 00:04:37,660 [Mr. Kraft] Ellen, come here. 68 00:04:39,861 --> 00:04:42,231 That Tristam Shandy on this shelf-- 69 00:04:42,361 --> 00:04:43,796 you sold it? 70 00:04:43,929 --> 00:04:47,434 No, you said l wasn't to sell these books without consulting you. 71 00:04:47,564 --> 00:04:49,433 Then what's become of it? 72 00:04:49,566 --> 00:04:50,667 l don't know. 73 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,969 That brother of yours-- was he here today? 74 00:04:53,102 --> 00:04:57,708 Kenneth? You know you told him never to come in here, Mr. Kraft. 75 00:04:57,837 --> 00:05:00,942 But if you feel l'm responsible for the book being gone, 76 00:05:01,073 --> 00:05:03,009 l'll gladly pay the _8 you had it marked. 77 00:05:03,141 --> 00:05:05,912 _8? _8,OOO would be more like it. 78 00:05:06,042 --> 00:05:07,511 _8,ooo? 79 00:05:07,643 --> 00:05:09,045 Yes, _8,OOO. 80 00:05:09,177 --> 00:05:11,380 Either you're stupid or you're a sneaky thief like your brother. 81 00:05:11,512 --> 00:05:14,316 - l don't know which, but you're through. - But Mr. Kraft-- 82 00:05:14,447 --> 00:05:16,216 Now get out! Get out. Get out before l have you arrested, 83 00:05:16,348 --> 00:05:19,452 you and your brother both. You want that? You want that? Do you? 84 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,469 Miss Carter? 85 00:05:27,601 --> 00:05:30,472 Oh, Mr. Norland. 86 00:05:30,603 --> 00:05:34,475 l was-- l was just waiting around out here to see if l could... 87 00:05:34,605 --> 00:05:36,174 escort you home. 88 00:05:36,306 --> 00:05:38,509 But l-- l couldn't help hearing through the open door, 89 00:05:38,641 --> 00:05:40,543 and l think that's a darn dirty trick. 90 00:05:40,676 --> 00:05:44,548 You want me to go in there and wrap this guitar around his fat neck? 91 00:05:44,678 --> 00:05:47,516 lt's a nice thought, Mr. Norland, 92 00:05:47,646 --> 00:05:49,849 but l'm afraid it wouldn't do any good. 93 00:05:51,048 --> 00:05:53,084 Uh, would comee? 94 00:05:53,216 --> 00:05:55,118 - Would comee? - Do any good. 95 00:05:55,250 --> 00:05:56,919 [sighs] 96 00:05:57,051 --> 00:06:00,156 Well... 97 00:06:00,286 --> 00:06:02,555 yes, l think it would. 98 00:06:02,688 --> 00:06:04,791 [dialing] 99 00:06:07,991 --> 00:06:10,895 Pearl, Joseph Kraft. 100 00:06:11,027 --> 00:06:13,663 About that Tristam Shandy, 101 00:06:13,794 --> 00:06:16,298 l thought you were supposed to pick it up tomorrow. 102 00:06:18,463 --> 00:06:20,532 You didn't come by and get it this evening? 103 00:06:20,664 --> 00:06:24,236 Why no, Joseph, l've been here in front of the fire all evening, 104 00:06:24,366 --> 00:06:26,369 thinking of you. 105 00:06:26,502 --> 00:06:28,304 Gone? 106 00:06:28,436 --> 00:06:30,772 Are you sure? 107 00:06:30,904 --> 00:06:33,742 You don't suppose the police could have had anything to do with it, do you? 108 00:06:33,873 --> 00:06:35,942 No no, that's out of the question. 109 00:06:36,073 --> 00:06:39,077 Maybe he changed his mind and took it back. 110 00:06:39,208 --> 00:06:42,212 You'll let me know if anything happens, won't you? 111 00:06:42,344 --> 00:06:45,849 l won't be able to sleep a wink. 112 00:06:45,980 --> 00:06:48,083 Good night, Joseph. 113 00:06:51,482 --> 00:06:54,887 [Man] Instead of a fashion artist, Pearl, you should have been an actress. 114 00:07:05,824 --> 00:07:07,693 Mmm. 115 00:07:07,825 --> 00:07:09,994 Now how about unraveling the mystery? 116 00:07:10,125 --> 00:07:12,829 l steal this beat-up old book for you; 117 00:07:12,961 --> 00:07:16,833 you got the phone call you've been waiting qo_. So now where are we? 118 00:07:16,963 --> 00:07:19,801 Well, first, this beat-up old book, as you call it, 119 00:07:19,932 --> 00:07:22,268 happens to be worth about _8,OOO. 120 00:07:22,399 --> 00:07:24,034 _8,ooo? 121 00:07:24,167 --> 00:07:26,905 lf l'd have known that, l'd never let you con me into taking it. 122 00:07:27,036 --> 00:07:29,139 Well, that's why l didn't tell you, darling. 123 00:07:29,270 --> 00:07:33,409 Besides, it's hot, so there'll be no complaints-- at least not to the police. 124 00:07:33,540 --> 00:07:36,577 Oh. The old boy Kraft, he's a book thief. 125 00:07:36,707 --> 00:07:39,645 No, he's a receiver. And he's not so old, either. 126 00:07:39,776 --> 00:07:42,447 Oh? Where do you fit in with him? 127 00:07:42,578 --> 00:07:44,847 Not how you're thinking, sweet. 128 00:07:44,979 --> 00:07:47,917 Actually l'm sort of a junior business partner. 129 00:07:48,048 --> 00:07:51,018 Only l'm ambitious; l'd like to move up in the firm. 130 00:07:51,149 --> 00:07:53,085 And that's where you fit in. 131 00:07:55,218 --> 00:07:58,856 All right, what's the proposition? 132 00:07:58,987 --> 00:08:01,991 About once a month, l get a call from Kraft. 133 00:08:02,122 --> 00:08:03,891 He has a first edition o_ Tristam Shandy 134 00:08:04,024 --> 00:08:06,861 or Vanity fair or Alice in Wonderland for me to buy. 135 00:08:06,991 --> 00:08:09,895 - Buy? - The ne_ day l go to the store. 136 00:08:10,027 --> 00:08:12,998 The book's marked _6.50 or _T or _8. 137 00:08:13,128 --> 00:08:15,264 The clerk checks the price with Mr. Kraft, 138 00:08:15,396 --> 00:08:17,599 but there's no contact between us. 139 00:08:17,731 --> 00:08:20,267 l just pay for the book and walk out. 140 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:21,434 Then what? 141 00:08:21,567 --> 00:08:23,436 Over here. 142 00:08:30,238 --> 00:08:33,475 Specially aged inks, paper, thread, old-time pens; 143 00:08:33,607 --> 00:08:36,877 even special kinds of glues they used in the old days. 144 00:08:37,008 --> 00:08:39,045 You change the books. 145 00:08:39,176 --> 00:08:41,946 Exactly as Kraft tells me to; nothing drastic. 146 00:08:42,078 --> 00:08:45,082 Just enough so that nobody will quite be able to identify 147 00:08:45,213 --> 00:08:47,316 any particular copy of an edition. 148 00:08:47,447 --> 00:08:49,551 Then l mail them back to Kraft. 149 00:08:49,683 --> 00:08:52,186 ln a couple of days, the postman hands me an envelope 150 00:08:52,317 --> 00:08:54,687 with five crisp _100 bills in it. 151 00:08:54,819 --> 00:08:57,055 _500? You're kidding me. 152 00:08:57,186 --> 00:09:00,391 You didn't think fashion sketching Iet me live like this, did you? 153 00:09:00,522 --> 00:09:02,091 l wondered. 154 00:09:02,223 --> 00:09:05,193 How does Kraft get the books in the first place? Who steals them for him? 155 00:09:05,324 --> 00:09:06,526 He doesn't know. 156 00:09:06,658 --> 00:09:08,627 lf he doesn't know him, how does he pay this guy? 157 00:09:08,759 --> 00:09:11,396 l don't know. 158 00:09:11,528 --> 00:09:14,499 But l did learn one thing checking the book auctions. 159 00:09:14,630 --> 00:09:17,667 Kraft's been averaging better than _6,OOO 160 00:09:17,799 --> 00:09:19,300 on the books l've fixed for him. 161 00:09:19,432 --> 00:09:22,436 Ho! At a book a month, 162 00:09:22,567 --> 00:09:25,405 that's better than _TO,OOO a year. 163 00:09:25,536 --> 00:09:27,205 That's right, sweet. 164 00:09:27,337 --> 00:09:30,241 So don't you think this is one book club you ought to join? 165 00:09:38,510 --> 00:09:40,579 lt does seem a bit arbitrary, Miss Carter, 166 00:09:40,711 --> 00:09:42,948 dismissing you because one book is missing. 167 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,285 However, l'm afraid you'll have trouble collecting damages, 168 00:09:46,414 --> 00:09:47,715 if that's what you're thinking of. 169 00:09:47,849 --> 00:09:49,550 Oh no, that's not it. 170 00:09:49,683 --> 00:09:54,089 l just want to know how to go about... 171 00:09:54,218 --> 00:09:58,057 straightening things out so l don't have to live in fear 172 00:09:58,187 --> 00:10:00,224 of his suddenly deciding to have me arrested. 173 00:10:00,356 --> 00:10:02,325 Have you tried to see him today? 174 00:10:02,457 --> 00:10:03,491 No. 175 00:10:03,624 --> 00:10:05,894 Well, l did. 176 00:10:06,026 --> 00:10:07,962 That's where l got this. 177 00:10:08,094 --> 00:10:11,232 But it took Kraft, his clerk and three customers to throw me out of the store. 178 00:10:11,362 --> 00:10:14,934 You also arranged for this interview, l believe. 179 00:10:15,064 --> 00:10:16,166 Yeah, that's right. 180 00:10:16,298 --> 00:10:19,836 Why all this interest, Mr. Norland, when you barely know Miss Carter? 181 00:10:19,967 --> 00:10:24,873 Just say it's the slice of life for the great American novel l'm gonna write... 182 00:10:25,004 --> 00:10:26,773 and nosiness. 183 00:10:26,905 --> 00:10:29,041 Nosiness? 184 00:10:29,173 --> 00:10:32,711 Over why Kraft would mark a book _8 and then say it was worth _8,OOO. 185 00:10:32,841 --> 00:10:34,310 Temper, maybe. 186 00:10:34,441 --> 00:10:37,512 Yeah, but would he get into such a temper if the book was worth only _8? 187 00:10:37,644 --> 00:10:41,182 He might have thought l was starting to... 188 00:10:41,312 --> 00:10:43,782 do what Kenneth did. 189 00:10:43,914 --> 00:10:46,752 My brother. 190 00:10:46,882 --> 00:10:50,287 When our mother died, 191 00:10:50,417 --> 00:10:53,388 Mr. Kraft asked us both to come and work for him. 192 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:57,925 We'd never met him, but we're the only relatives he has. 193 00:10:58,055 --> 00:11:00,592 And the idea was that someday 194 00:11:00,723 --> 00:11:03,426 we might even inherit the bookstore. 195 00:11:03,558 --> 00:11:06,296 But last month, 196 00:11:06,426 --> 00:11:10,031 Kenneth took _200 from the cash register to gamble with 197 00:11:10,162 --> 00:11:12,131 and couldn't pay it back. 198 00:11:12,262 --> 00:11:14,599 And Mr. Kraft fired him? 199 00:11:14,731 --> 00:11:17,267 Yes, even though l gave him the money. 200 00:11:17,399 --> 00:11:19,335 But l... 201 00:11:19,466 --> 00:11:20,801 owe him some more. 202 00:11:20,935 --> 00:11:24,106 Look, Mr. Mason, Kraft is just suspecting her 203 00:11:24,236 --> 00:11:25,871 because of the kind of guy her brother is. 204 00:11:26,004 --> 00:11:29,142 But has he got the right to condemn Ellen without proof? 205 00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:32,644 Certainly no moral right, Mr. Norland. 206 00:11:32,775 --> 00:11:35,880 Della, didn't you tell me that volume 6 207 00:11:36,010 --> 00:11:39,080 o_ Manning and Granger's Reports had somehow been lost? 208 00:11:39,213 --> 00:11:41,149 That was two years ago. 209 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:44,182 Don't you think it's about time l tried replacing it-- 210 00:11:44,314 --> 00:11:47,752 perhaps after lunch at Mr. Kraft's bookstore? 211 00:11:47,883 --> 00:11:50,053 Yes l do. 212 00:11:51,652 --> 00:11:55,791 No, madam, Tropic of Cancer is not a medical book-- 213 00:11:55,921 --> 00:11:57,423 far from it. 214 00:12:03,926 --> 00:12:05,962 May l assist you, sir? 215 00:12:07,428 --> 00:12:09,096 Are you Joseph Kraft? 216 00:12:09,230 --> 00:12:11,967 No, Pickson-- Herbert Pickson, chief clerk, 217 00:12:12,097 --> 00:12:14,701 but if it's a particular book, l'm sure l can find it for you. 218 00:12:14,832 --> 00:12:17,001 You can find Mr. Kraft for me. 219 00:12:17,133 --> 00:12:20,638 He's in his omice, but he never sees anyone without any appointment. 220 00:12:20,768 --> 00:12:22,570 He'll see me. 221 00:12:28,006 --> 00:12:29,341 [Mr. Kraft] Who is it? 222 00:12:29,473 --> 00:12:31,209 My name is Gene Torg, Mr. Kraft. 223 00:12:31,341 --> 00:12:33,777 l'm calling in regard to a mutual friend 224 00:12:33,909 --> 00:12:36,880 by the name of Laurence Sterne. 225 00:12:45,183 --> 00:12:48,388 Steel mesh on the window; Iocks on the door. 226 00:12:48,517 --> 00:12:51,387 What do you keep in here, Mr. Kraft? Gold bullion? 227 00:12:51,518 --> 00:12:54,322 Valuable books sometimes. 228 00:12:54,454 --> 00:12:57,392 Would have been wiser if you'd have kept this Tristam Shandy in here 229 00:12:57,522 --> 00:12:59,258 instead of on a shelf outside. 230 00:12:59,390 --> 00:13:02,026 You took it last night? 231 00:13:02,158 --> 00:13:04,595 Borrowed it, let's say... 232 00:13:04,727 --> 00:13:09,233 pending an agreement on it and future stolen books. 233 00:13:12,064 --> 00:13:13,433 What's the idea of that? 234 00:13:13,565 --> 00:13:18,205 So you won't leave, Mr. Torg, while l'm calling the police. 235 00:13:18,334 --> 00:13:20,537 Are you out of your head? How are you going to explain this to them? 236 00:13:20,669 --> 00:13:22,238 l'll leave that to you. 237 00:13:22,370 --> 00:13:26,242 Apparently you came into my store last night, took a copy of Tristam Shandy om the shelf, 238 00:13:26,372 --> 00:13:30,712 and now for some mysterious reason, you're attempting to use it to threaten me. 239 00:13:30,842 --> 00:13:33,812 You've got the nerve of a riverboat gambler. 240 00:13:33,943 --> 00:13:38,317 Only l happen to have the hole card that'll call your blum-- 241 00:13:38,445 --> 00:13:41,048 the Queen of Hearts, Pearl Chute. 242 00:13:41,181 --> 00:13:44,018 She's in this with you? 243 00:13:44,149 --> 00:13:46,953 - [knock at door] - [Pickson] Mr. Kraft? 244 00:13:47,084 --> 00:13:49,854 Can you spare a minute for a Mr. Mason-- 245 00:13:49,986 --> 00:13:52,989 Mr. Perry Mason? He says it's important. 246 00:13:54,122 --> 00:13:55,257 Mason? 247 00:14:00,125 --> 00:14:01,694 Come in. Come in, sir. 248 00:14:01,825 --> 00:14:04,129 Mr. Torg here was just leaving. 249 00:14:04,261 --> 00:14:07,164 Mr. Torg. Haven't we met before? 250 00:14:07,296 --> 00:14:10,634 No, l don't think so. 251 00:14:10,764 --> 00:14:14,704 Our deal-- l'll be back tonight to iron out the details. 252 00:14:14,833 --> 00:14:17,336 Good day, sir. 253 00:14:20,037 --> 00:14:22,774 Well, what can l do for you, Mr. Mason? 254 00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:24,873 l'm here on behalf of Ellen Carter. 255 00:14:25,005 --> 00:14:28,677 Oh. You're a lawyer, aren't you? She came to you? 256 00:14:28,807 --> 00:14:33,014 E_remely disturbed over a threat you allegedly made when you discharged her, 257 00:14:33,144 --> 00:14:36,716 namely that you would have her arrested for theft. 258 00:14:36,845 --> 00:14:40,517 Mr. Mason, l have a hair-trigger temper 259 00:14:40,647 --> 00:14:44,252 and l very often do things that l regret later on. 260 00:14:44,382 --> 00:14:48,489 l'm ashamed of threatening Ellen and l'm ashamed of discharging her. 261 00:14:48,619 --> 00:14:52,424 And all the result of a misunderstanding over a mislaid book 262 00:14:52,554 --> 00:14:54,924 which l found this morning. 263 00:14:55,056 --> 00:14:56,892 This book--Tristam Shandy? 264 00:14:57,023 --> 00:14:59,093 As a matter of fact, yes. 265 00:14:59,225 --> 00:15:02,262 How is it you'd keep a book as valuable as this on an open shelf? 266 00:15:02,392 --> 00:15:04,362 Valuable? Oh, l see. 267 00:15:04,494 --> 00:15:07,364 You mean my telling Ellen that it was worth _8,OOO? 268 00:15:07,495 --> 00:15:09,732 Temper again, Mr. Mason. 269 00:15:09,864 --> 00:15:13,936 Actually it's worth about _8, as you can see. It's marked. 270 00:15:14,067 --> 00:15:16,938 So it is. 271 00:15:17,069 --> 00:15:19,439 Now as to your misunderstanding with Miss Carter 272 00:15:19,569 --> 00:15:21,204 do you plan to rectify it? 273 00:15:21,338 --> 00:15:25,511 Oh, l've been trying to reach her all morning to apologize and give her her job back. 274 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,676 That seems fair enough. 275 00:15:28,874 --> 00:15:30,844 This is quite a handsome volume. 276 00:15:30,976 --> 00:15:34,247 Since l've always enjoyed Sterne, l'll take it. 277 00:15:34,378 --> 00:15:36,180 Oh, no no, that books been sold. 278 00:15:36,313 --> 00:15:38,215 l'm sorry, Mr. Mason. 279 00:15:38,348 --> 00:15:41,352 May l ask if the buyer was Mr. Torg? 280 00:15:42,350 --> 00:15:44,119 Odd that he didn't take it with him. 281 00:15:44,250 --> 00:15:48,122 Well, it's part of a deal that we're concluding. 282 00:15:48,252 --> 00:15:51,090 You, uh... 283 00:15:51,221 --> 00:15:52,890 you won't forget to phone Miss Carter? 284 00:15:53,022 --> 00:15:55,225 Oh, l'll do that right away-- right away, sir. 285 00:15:55,357 --> 00:15:56,559 Good. 286 00:15:59,826 --> 00:16:01,828 Good day, sir. 287 00:16:17,702 --> 00:16:19,538 Pearl? 288 00:16:19,670 --> 00:16:21,105 Oh, l see. 289 00:16:21,238 --> 00:16:23,641 Do you know where Miss Chute is? 290 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:27,577 No no, l'll call back later. 291 00:16:33,878 --> 00:16:37,149 Excuse me. You're Professor Muntz, aren't you? 292 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,685 You're Mr. Mason. l haven't seen you since that regrettable hazing amair 293 00:16:40,815 --> 00:16:43,452 at the university five-- or was it six-- years ago. 294 00:16:43,584 --> 00:16:44,751 Six, Professor. 295 00:16:44,884 --> 00:16:48,924 As l recall, you were specializing in 1Tth- and 18th-century English literature. 296 00:16:49,054 --> 00:16:50,356 l still am. 297 00:16:50,488 --> 00:16:52,657 Then perhaps you can tell me what distinguishing marks 298 00:16:52,789 --> 00:16:55,092 to look for in a first-edition Tristam Shandy 299 00:16:55,224 --> 00:16:57,795 to be sure it's genuine. 300 00:16:57,925 --> 00:17:01,797 First-edition Tristam Shandys are a little rich for my blood, Mr. Mason, 301 00:17:01,927 --> 00:17:03,429 but, well, let me think. 302 00:17:03,561 --> 00:17:05,730 Could one of the libraries help me? 303 00:17:05,863 --> 00:17:07,498 The Cosgrove maybe? 304 00:17:07,630 --> 00:17:09,199 ln San Marino, yes. 305 00:17:09,332 --> 00:17:11,936 Yes, l guess the Cosgrove might be worth trying. 306 00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:21,776 You see, Mr. Drake, first editions have their own unique fingerprints, 307 00:17:21,905 --> 00:17:23,440 so to speak, just as people do. 308 00:17:23,572 --> 00:17:26,376 Now take the King James Bible-- 309 00:17:26,508 --> 00:17:30,113 the important fingerprint there is in the Book of Ruth-- 310 00:17:30,244 --> 00:17:32,715 ''He measured five measures of barley... 311 00:17:32,845 --> 00:17:34,881 and he went into the city.'' 312 00:17:35,013 --> 00:17:38,585 Subsequent issues read: ''...and she went into the city.'' 313 00:17:38,715 --> 00:17:40,350 And that makes a dimerence? 314 00:17:40,482 --> 00:17:45,389 Of about _200,OOO in regard to the King James Bible, Mr. Drake. 315 00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:46,586 [whistles] 316 00:17:46,719 --> 00:17:49,657 Yes, but you were asking me 317 00:17:49,788 --> 00:17:53,059 about some Tristam Shandy fingerprints. 318 00:17:53,190 --> 00:17:57,764 Now suppose we start with volume 1 , published in 1T60. 319 00:17:57,893 --> 00:18:01,365 Now this particular copy is rather valuable. 320 00:18:01,494 --> 00:18:04,465 lt was one of several presentation copies 321 00:18:04,596 --> 00:18:07,499 given by Sterne to David Garrick, the actor. 322 00:18:07,631 --> 00:18:09,801 And there's his inscription-- 323 00:18:09,933 --> 00:18:12,670 ''To David Garrick from his constant admirer 324 00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:14,270 L. Sterne.'' 325 00:18:14,402 --> 00:18:18,709 Now the answer here comes from certain missing fingerprints. 326 00:18:18,838 --> 00:18:22,176 Oddly, the first-edition title page 327 00:18:22,307 --> 00:18:24,677 bore no printer's, no publisher's name, 328 00:18:24,808 --> 00:18:27,278 no place of publication and not even... 329 00:18:30,510 --> 00:18:33,581 ''By L. Sterne.'' 330 00:18:33,712 --> 00:18:37,117 - By L. Sterne? - What's wrong? 331 00:18:37,248 --> 00:18:40,586 The first-edition title page was also without the author's name. 332 00:18:40,716 --> 00:18:44,054 This book is a substitution, and even the inscription must be a forgery. 333 00:18:44,186 --> 00:18:46,689 But that's impossible. 334 00:18:46,820 --> 00:18:48,857 That's impossible. 335 00:18:48,988 --> 00:18:52,827 [Beethoven's fi Fth playing] 336 00:19:04,163 --> 00:19:07,101 EIIen_. The Indoor Barbeque Cookbook marked _1 .50. 337 00:19:07,232 --> 00:19:08,968 [Man] Here you are. 338 00:19:09,099 --> 00:19:12,070 - Would you like me to wrap it? - No thanks, l'll eat it here. 339 00:19:12,202 --> 00:19:15,807 - Eat it? - Barbequed Cookbook. Eat! 340 00:19:17,871 --> 00:19:20,107 Well, you can't win 'em all. 341 00:19:22,274 --> 00:19:25,846 Mr. Mason, l tried to reach you this afternoon to thank you. 342 00:19:25,976 --> 00:19:28,245 Where's Mr. Kraft, Ellen? 343 00:19:28,377 --> 00:19:30,113 ln his omice. 344 00:19:35,881 --> 00:19:39,152 You sure he's in there, Ellen? 345 00:19:39,283 --> 00:19:43,255 Yes, Mr. Mason, l heard him turn the radio on an hour or so ago. 346 00:19:43,385 --> 00:19:46,523 Perry, l smell gas. 347 00:19:49,156 --> 00:19:51,959 Mr. Kraft? Mr. Kraft. 348 00:19:58,694 --> 00:20:00,963 Mr. Kraft? 349 00:20:04,097 --> 00:20:06,099 [coughing] 350 00:20:09,555 --> 00:20:10,990 When the radio came on? 351 00:20:11,122 --> 00:20:13,525 Well, l'd just come back from dinner, 352 00:20:13,658 --> 00:20:16,828 so it couldn't have been much after T:OO. 353 00:20:16,958 --> 00:20:19,629 Mr. Pickson was still here. 354 00:20:19,761 --> 00:20:22,499 - Pickson? - Terrible-- 355 00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:24,131 a terrible thing. 356 00:20:24,264 --> 00:20:27,167 l-- l couldn't believe it when the police phoned me. 357 00:20:27,298 --> 00:20:29,367 The radio, Pickson? 358 00:20:29,499 --> 00:20:30,834 Oh yes. 359 00:20:30,966 --> 00:20:34,705 When Mr. Kraft turned it on, it was a moment or two after T:OO, 360 00:20:34,837 --> 00:20:36,773 which is when l always leave for the night. 361 00:20:36,905 --> 00:20:40,777 And it was around 9:OO when you broke in here, Paul? 362 00:20:40,907 --> 00:20:44,012 That's right. So knockom time must have been between T:OO and 9:OO. 363 00:20:44,141 --> 00:20:47,913 Well, thank you very very much, Mr. Norland. 364 00:20:48,043 --> 00:20:50,112 l might never have figured that out. 365 00:20:50,244 --> 00:20:53,782 And now if you don't mind, you two-- you and you-- 366 00:20:53,914 --> 00:20:55,483 wait outside. 367 00:20:55,614 --> 00:20:58,352 Uh, anything there, Andy? 368 00:20:58,483 --> 00:21:01,454 Hasn't been tampered with as far as l can make out. 369 00:21:01,585 --> 00:21:04,555 All right, Iet's see what we've got so far, 370 00:21:04,686 --> 00:21:07,657 preliminary to the autopsy, of course. 371 00:21:07,788 --> 00:21:10,959 A little before 6:OO, according to half a dozen witnesses, 372 00:21:11,089 --> 00:21:13,592 Kraft comes back from supper to hole up in here 373 00:21:13,725 --> 00:21:16,095 the way he did almost every night. 374 00:21:16,226 --> 00:21:18,662 At T:OO, he turns on the radio; 375 00:21:18,794 --> 00:21:21,632 maybe the heater and the lamp too then. 376 00:21:21,763 --> 00:21:25,201 Anyway, he goes back to the couch 377 00:21:25,331 --> 00:21:28,202 - and falls asleep. - What makes you say that? 378 00:21:28,333 --> 00:21:31,438 Well, if he'd been awake, he'd have smelled the escaping gas. 379 00:21:33,236 --> 00:21:36,373 He turned the valve like so, 380 00:21:36,504 --> 00:21:39,475 not noticing that the pilot light was out. 381 00:21:39,606 --> 00:21:41,241 And they do go out. 382 00:21:41,373 --> 00:21:44,611 l know because l've got one in my basement l have to light about once every month. 383 00:21:44,742 --> 00:21:46,277 An accident then? 384 00:21:46,410 --> 00:21:48,379 Of course, suicide's a possibility too, 385 00:21:48,511 --> 00:21:52,183 but the pilot light would probably have been actually turned om in that case, 386 00:21:52,313 --> 00:21:54,349 and there'd most likely be a note. 387 00:21:54,481 --> 00:21:57,318 Doesn't it seem to you that he fell asleep rather quickly? 388 00:21:57,449 --> 00:22:00,887 Gas escaping like that would certainly be noticed in three or four minutes. 389 00:22:01,017 --> 00:22:03,855 You should see me fall asleep. 390 00:22:03,986 --> 00:22:08,392 Perry, Homicide has to double check these things. 391 00:22:08,523 --> 00:22:10,859 Don't you try to make a murder out of it. 392 00:22:10,990 --> 00:22:12,692 Why not? 393 00:22:12,825 --> 00:22:16,497 Well, it's the granddaddy of all the locked-room puzzles that l've ever heard o_. 394 00:22:16,627 --> 00:22:19,264 And how. No other way into the room 395 00:22:19,395 --> 00:22:21,364 except through this door, 396 00:22:21,496 --> 00:22:24,333 and that locked from the inside until you smashed it, 397 00:22:24,465 --> 00:22:27,168 and these windows, also locked from the inside 398 00:22:27,299 --> 00:22:29,235 and protected by steel mesh. 399 00:22:29,367 --> 00:22:31,336 Anyway, nobody'd get through 'em but a midget, 400 00:22:31,468 --> 00:22:36,175 and none did or else these dead flies and this dust would be disturbed. 401 00:22:37,172 --> 00:22:38,774 Well, Perry? 402 00:22:39,940 --> 00:22:42,878 You have the locked room, Lieutenant. l'll grant you that. 403 00:22:43,008 --> 00:22:44,677 But l'd still like to know what happened 404 00:22:44,810 --> 00:22:47,180 to that copy of Tristam Shandy l told you about. 405 00:22:47,310 --> 00:22:50,148 [knock at door] 406 00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:53,350 - Who is it? - It's me, Pearl-- Gene. Open up. 407 00:22:53,481 --> 00:22:55,217 Coming. 408 00:23:10,023 --> 00:23:11,558 What's the matter? 409 00:23:11,691 --> 00:23:15,196 Kraft. He's dead. 410 00:23:15,326 --> 00:23:17,295 Dead? 411 00:23:17,427 --> 00:23:19,564 But l saw him not-- 412 00:23:20,763 --> 00:23:23,567 - When did he die? - How should l know? 413 00:23:23,698 --> 00:23:24,866 The desk clerk at my apartment 414 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,936 just said there was a lot of excitement down by his store-- 415 00:23:27,066 --> 00:23:29,169 police cars, ambulance. 416 00:23:30,635 --> 00:23:32,738 When did you see Kraft? 417 00:23:34,671 --> 00:23:38,878 l didn't mean ''see him.'' l meant when l talked to him on the phone. 418 00:23:39,008 --> 00:23:40,577 Phone? 419 00:23:40,708 --> 00:23:44,213 That how you got this from him? By phone? 420 00:23:45,210 --> 00:23:48,381 - [knock at door] - Paul: Miss Chute? 421 00:23:48,512 --> 00:23:49,680 Yes, what is it? 422 00:23:49,813 --> 00:23:53,018 l'd like to speak to Mr. Torg a minute if you don't mind. 423 00:24:00,753 --> 00:24:03,557 - Who are you? - My name is Paul, Miss Chute. 424 00:24:03,688 --> 00:24:07,593 l'm a collector of old books and Mr. Torg has one l'm very interested in. 425 00:24:07,723 --> 00:24:10,594 You see, l arrived at his apartment just as he was leaving, 426 00:24:10,725 --> 00:24:12,527 so l... 427 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,062 Come in, come in. 428 00:24:18,996 --> 00:24:20,932 You know who this is, Pearl? 429 00:24:21,064 --> 00:24:23,734 The pet private eye of that lawyer, Perry Mason. 430 00:24:23,866 --> 00:24:26,336 Name's Paul, all right-- Paul Drake. 431 00:24:26,467 --> 00:24:28,803 l'll lay odds the only books you ever collected in your life 432 00:24:28,935 --> 00:24:31,305 were bound copies o_ The Police Gazette. 433 00:24:31,436 --> 00:24:32,638 Could be, Torg. 434 00:24:32,771 --> 00:24:36,443 But right now l am interested in a first edition of Tristam Shandy. 435 00:24:36,572 --> 00:24:38,842 You mean Mason is. 436 00:24:38,975 --> 00:24:42,447 Well, you can tell him for me the last time l saw the book was when he did, 437 00:24:42,576 --> 00:24:44,578 on Kraft's desk today around noon. 438 00:24:46,945 --> 00:24:50,817 - Then this couldn't be it over here. - Drake! 439 00:24:50,947 --> 00:24:53,418 Get out. 440 00:24:53,549 --> 00:24:56,319 Just as you say. 441 00:24:56,451 --> 00:24:58,420 Good night, Miss Chute. 442 00:25:02,821 --> 00:25:04,757 Well, big shot, you've done it. 443 00:25:04,889 --> 00:25:07,526 lt's my fault. l shouldn't have let him in. 444 00:25:08,524 --> 00:25:10,694 How did that book get here, Pearl? How? 445 00:25:10,826 --> 00:25:13,462 l got it from Kraft. He called after you'd been there. 446 00:25:13,593 --> 00:25:15,228 So you went over there and made you own deal with him, huh? 447 00:25:15,361 --> 00:25:17,464 But l didn't; l made our deal-- 448 00:25:17,595 --> 00:25:20,333 half of whatever he cleared on the books with you to collect the money. 449 00:25:20,464 --> 00:25:22,500 And then he agreed to that without a fuss? 450 00:25:22,632 --> 00:25:25,103 Yes. 451 00:25:25,233 --> 00:25:28,438 lt couldn't be, could it, that he didn't agree? 452 00:25:28,569 --> 00:25:31,639 And in the argument you shoved him a little too hard or something? 453 00:25:31,771 --> 00:25:35,309 Kraft said you were supposed to come by his place tonight. 454 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:40,113 Now it couldn't be that you shoved him a little too hard or something? 455 00:25:43,811 --> 00:25:46,782 Volume 2 of our Tristam Shandy, l believe you said, sir? 456 00:25:46,913 --> 00:25:47,814 That's right. 457 00:25:47,947 --> 00:25:50,016 Please return it to me when you finish. 458 00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:12,295 l think you'll agree that this is one way it could have been done. 459 00:26:12,427 --> 00:26:15,697 Notebooks? It never occurred to us 460 00:26:15,829 --> 00:26:18,200 that books could be hidden in them. 461 00:26:18,330 --> 00:26:20,599 How many substitutions have been discovered so far? 462 00:26:20,731 --> 00:26:24,703 Six if you include the volume 1 o_ Tristam Shandy-- 463 00:26:24,835 --> 00:26:28,340 one Fielding, two Bront?s, one George Eliot, 464 00:26:28,470 --> 00:26:32,042 and an exceptionally fine copy o_ Swih!s Gulliver's Travels. 465 00:26:32,171 --> 00:26:33,673 And their total value? 466 00:26:33,806 --> 00:26:35,675 _30 to _40,OOO, 467 00:26:35,807 --> 00:26:37,876 provided they could be sold somewhere, of course. 468 00:26:38,008 --> 00:26:41,980 l don't think the Shandy's been sold yet, but the others probably have. 469 00:26:42,111 --> 00:26:45,349 Have you received any replies from the other libraries? 470 00:26:45,479 --> 00:26:48,350 UCLA has found two substitutions; 471 00:26:48,481 --> 00:26:51,452 Huntington and Oldbury, one each. 472 00:26:51,583 --> 00:26:53,319 Then the losses could run into hundreds of thousands. 473 00:26:53,450 --> 00:26:54,885 Quite easily. 474 00:26:55,018 --> 00:26:58,456 You see, the substitute books are so close to the originals 475 00:26:58,587 --> 00:27:00,690 that only an expert would notice the dimerence 476 00:27:00,821 --> 00:27:03,992 and then only if his suspicions had been aroused. 477 00:27:04,124 --> 00:27:07,529 So this may have been going on for a long time. 478 00:27:07,658 --> 00:27:10,896 A fiendishly clever man, this Joseph Kraft. 479 00:27:11,027 --> 00:27:14,332 Clever, but not very lucky. 480 00:27:14,462 --> 00:27:16,231 We'll keep in touch. 481 00:27:16,363 --> 00:27:18,966 l would appreciate that. 482 00:27:19,098 --> 00:27:21,402 Uh, Mr. Mason? 483 00:27:21,533 --> 00:27:23,769 Aren't you forgetting something? 484 00:27:34,206 --> 00:27:37,277 Joseph Kraft substituted second or third editions 485 00:27:37,408 --> 00:27:39,711 for valuable first editions. 486 00:27:39,843 --> 00:27:42,781 Pearl Chute altered the stolen first editions. 487 00:27:42,912 --> 00:27:46,183 Then Kraft sold them as finds he'd come on to someplace. 488 00:27:46,313 --> 00:27:48,983 But where did Gene Torg fit in? 489 00:27:49,115 --> 00:27:52,320 Wherever he could get his foot in the door. That's why Perry had me go after him. 490 00:27:52,450 --> 00:27:54,753 We'd met Torg once before in a con-game case. 491 00:27:54,885 --> 00:27:57,522 Did the police question him? 492 00:27:57,653 --> 00:28:00,089 This morning. He denied everything and so did Pearl. 493 00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,589 And it looks like they're gonna make it stick. 494 00:28:01,722 --> 00:28:04,426 Your people are still watching them, aren't they, Paul? 495 00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:07,728 Also the boy from the robbery detail, so it's gotten a little crowded. 496 00:28:07,859 --> 00:28:09,228 [phone buzzes] 497 00:28:11,261 --> 00:28:13,631 Yes, Gertie? 498 00:28:13,762 --> 00:28:15,598 Peter Norland? 499 00:28:15,730 --> 00:28:18,134 Send him in. 500 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,469 Mr. Norland. 501 00:28:24,601 --> 00:28:27,339 For an hour l've been pacing up and down in front of your building, Mr. Mason, 502 00:28:27,470 --> 00:28:29,506 like a picket without a signboard. 503 00:28:29,638 --> 00:28:32,876 But l can't decide whether coming here makes me a double crosser 504 00:28:33,007 --> 00:28:34,509 or a knight on a white mustang. 505 00:28:34,641 --> 00:28:36,243 Sit down. 506 00:28:36,375 --> 00:28:38,377 lt sounds as though you have a very serious problem. 507 00:28:38,509 --> 00:28:41,914 l have-- Miss Carter and a small snowstorm 508 00:28:42,045 --> 00:28:45,350 - of brand-new _100 bills... - _100 bills? 509 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,017 ...that floated out of her purse when l accidentally knocked it om a table 510 00:28:48,149 --> 00:28:49,450 in the bookstore this afternoon. 511 00:28:49,582 --> 00:28:52,119 How many _100 bills? 512 00:28:52,250 --> 00:28:54,686 She collected them so fast, l couldn't count. 513 00:28:54,818 --> 00:28:57,756 About _2,OOO, l'd say. 514 00:28:57,887 --> 00:29:01,525 l feel like a heel reporting this thing, but Pickson saw the money too 515 00:29:01,656 --> 00:29:03,358 and he'll probably tell the police. 516 00:29:03,490 --> 00:29:05,292 Pickson-- he's the chief clerk. 517 00:29:05,424 --> 00:29:07,226 How did the bookstore happen to be open? 518 00:29:07,358 --> 00:29:09,562 lt isn't. He and Ellen are taking inventory, 519 00:29:09,694 --> 00:29:13,199 along with Professor Muntz, who the police called in to check the rare books. 520 00:29:13,329 --> 00:29:16,066 l don't like the sound of this at all. 521 00:29:16,198 --> 00:29:17,800 The inventory? 522 00:29:17,932 --> 00:29:20,303 The snowstorm of _100 bills. 523 00:29:20,433 --> 00:29:23,704 Do you think somebody could be trying to frame Ellen Carter for the book theft? 524 00:29:23,835 --> 00:29:26,873 l think somebody is trying to frame Ellen Carter for murder. 525 00:29:29,605 --> 00:29:32,276 Mr. Mason, l can't explain the money. 526 00:29:32,407 --> 00:29:35,210 l-- not sensibly-- 527 00:29:35,341 --> 00:29:38,045 l found it in my handbag, 528 00:29:38,177 --> 00:29:41,649 folded in a little zipper pocket l hardly ever use. 529 00:29:41,779 --> 00:29:43,581 That's just about what we thought, Ellen. 530 00:29:43,713 --> 00:29:46,584 You mean you believe me? 531 00:29:46,715 --> 00:29:48,417 Yes. 532 00:29:48,549 --> 00:29:51,887 But the question is will the police believe you? 533 00:29:52,018 --> 00:29:54,121 What have the police got to do with it? 534 00:29:54,252 --> 00:29:56,588 l'll try to show you. 535 00:29:57,588 --> 00:30:00,224 Now let's go back to T:OO last night. 536 00:30:00,355 --> 00:30:02,859 Mr. Kraft had been in here since 6:OO, reading, napping-- 537 00:30:02,991 --> 00:30:04,360 whatever he did after supper. 538 00:30:04,491 --> 00:30:06,827 This still the locked-room deal the police were talking about, Mr. Mason? 539 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,831 That's right-- door bolted on the inside, windows tightly secured, 540 00:30:09,962 --> 00:30:11,464 no other way in. 541 00:30:11,596 --> 00:30:13,865 At T:OO, it being dark outside, 542 00:30:13,997 --> 00:30:15,999 let us say Mr. Kraft rolled over 543 00:30:16,131 --> 00:30:18,802 and switched on the reading light... 544 00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:21,136 also the radio 545 00:30:21,267 --> 00:30:23,370 and the heater. 546 00:30:25,904 --> 00:30:30,076 And then he sank back on the couch intending to read for a while. 547 00:30:30,206 --> 00:30:31,975 And then he dozed om again. 548 00:30:32,107 --> 00:30:34,010 Paul? 549 00:30:34,142 --> 00:30:36,178 Now watch the heater. 550 00:30:40,545 --> 00:30:42,849 Now listen. Listen closely. 551 00:30:42,981 --> 00:30:45,117 ( gas hissing ) 552 00:30:47,415 --> 00:30:50,153 lt's gas. 553 00:30:50,284 --> 00:30:51,853 All right, Paul, that'll do. 554 00:30:51,986 --> 00:30:54,356 ( classical music continues ) 555 00:30:54,486 --> 00:30:57,324 Just as the murderer must have done last night, 556 00:30:57,455 --> 00:30:59,157 Paul turned om the gas at the meter, 557 00:30:59,289 --> 00:31:02,460 thus e_inguishing both the heater and the pilot light. 558 00:31:02,591 --> 00:31:04,293 Then he turned the gas on again. 559 00:31:04,425 --> 00:31:05,927 And goodbye, Kraft. 560 00:31:06,060 --> 00:31:08,563 How'd the killer know where the gas meter was? 561 00:31:08,694 --> 00:31:10,196 l called the gas company. 562 00:31:10,328 --> 00:31:14,300 l knew where it was. Anyone who ever used the little washroom at the back did. 563 00:31:14,430 --> 00:31:15,799 'Evening, folks. 564 00:31:15,932 --> 00:31:18,469 Well, that's a very interesting experiment there, eh? 565 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,939 And closely duplicating one that we pe_ormed earlier today. 566 00:31:23,069 --> 00:31:26,441 And thank you for saying that you knew where the gas meter was. 567 00:31:26,571 --> 00:31:28,540 lt helps. 568 00:31:28,672 --> 00:31:31,043 Helps, Lieutenant? In what way? 569 00:31:31,174 --> 00:31:34,646 ln justifying this first-degree-murder warrant l have here 570 00:31:34,776 --> 00:31:37,045 for Miss Carter. 571 00:31:46,401 --> 00:31:49,172 The prosecution's going to have a lot to work with, Ellen-- 572 00:31:49,302 --> 00:31:53,608 your telling the police that you were alone in the store at the time of death; 573 00:31:53,738 --> 00:31:55,574 then the money found in your purse; 574 00:31:55,706 --> 00:31:59,679 not to mention the fact that you are going to inherit the bookstore. 575 00:31:59,809 --> 00:32:02,078 l am? Still? 576 00:32:02,209 --> 00:32:05,948 His lawyer said that Kraft disinherited your brother, 577 00:32:06,078 --> 00:32:08,449 but not you. 578 00:32:08,580 --> 00:32:11,483 Now do you still maintain that you have no idea 579 00:32:11,615 --> 00:32:14,820 how those _1 OO bills got into your purse? 580 00:32:14,950 --> 00:32:17,187 [sighs] 581 00:32:17,318 --> 00:32:19,888 All right, Ellen. 582 00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:22,758 But you're not going to be able to go on protecting your brother 583 00:32:22,889 --> 00:32:25,492 if you're in prison. 584 00:32:27,792 --> 00:32:30,428 Now with regard to this analysis that you pe_ormed 585 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:33,063 on the victim's blood, Dr. Hocksey, 586 00:32:33,194 --> 00:32:35,664 what did this analysis reveal? 587 00:32:35,796 --> 00:32:39,334 lt confirmed what l initially suspected when l visually examined the body, 588 00:32:39,464 --> 00:32:40,966 that gas was the cause of death. 589 00:32:41,098 --> 00:32:45,505 As Coroner's Physician, with long experience in this type of fatality, 590 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:48,372 when would you say the death occurred? 591 00:32:48,502 --> 00:32:52,442 About two and half hours before l saw the body, which was at 9:45. 592 00:32:52,572 --> 00:32:56,110 [Hamilton Burger] Then in other words, Joseph Kraft died at about T:15? 593 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,608 Give or take a half hour, Mr. Burger. 594 00:32:57,742 --> 00:32:59,945 Thank you, Dr. Hocksey. Mr. Mason? 595 00:33:00,077 --> 00:33:04,349 Doctor, you said ''give or take a half hour.'' 596 00:33:04,478 --> 00:33:07,749 That means then that Joseph Kraft could have died as late as T:45 597 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,749 or as early as 6:45. 598 00:33:09,881 --> 00:33:12,752 Why yes, he could have. 599 00:33:13,751 --> 00:33:17,256 l realize you've already testified as to these times, Mr. Pickson, 600 00:33:17,386 --> 00:33:20,123 but l'd like to double check them if you don't mind. 601 00:33:20,253 --> 00:33:23,758 First the time that Ellen Carter returned to the store 602 00:33:23,889 --> 00:33:27,394 - after dinner that night. - A minute or two before T:OO. 603 00:33:27,524 --> 00:33:31,364 And the time you say you heard Mr. Kraft turn his radio on? 604 00:33:31,494 --> 00:33:33,697 A minute or two after T:OO. 605 00:33:33,829 --> 00:33:35,798 And the time you say you left the store? 606 00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:37,432 Right after that. 607 00:33:37,564 --> 00:33:39,833 Now when you say these things, Mr. Pickson-- 608 00:33:39,965 --> 00:33:43,570 l don't just say these things, Mr. Mason. They happened. 609 00:33:43,701 --> 00:33:46,704 Miss Carter heard Mr. Kraft in that room too, you know. 610 00:33:46,836 --> 00:33:49,574 l'm not questioning that, Mr. Pickson. 611 00:33:49,704 --> 00:33:52,274 But the prosecution claims it will prove 612 00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:55,176 that Miss Carter was then alone in the store 613 00:33:55,307 --> 00:33:57,844 for a considerable length of time. 614 00:33:57,976 --> 00:34:00,346 You know the store. You also know Miss Carter's habits. 615 00:34:00,477 --> 00:34:03,281 Couldn't you have left the store and then sneaked right back in 616 00:34:03,412 --> 00:34:07,217 past the counters to the washroom and there have turned on the fatal gas valve? 617 00:34:07,347 --> 00:34:10,752 No, l couldn't have done that without Miss Carter seeing me. 618 00:34:10,883 --> 00:34:14,188 And besides, l was met outside by a friend, 619 00:34:14,318 --> 00:34:16,688 Mr. Gilfain of the Argus bookstore. 620 00:34:17,687 --> 00:34:21,392 Yes, l saw the bills fall out of her purse; knocked them out myself, in fact. 621 00:34:21,522 --> 00:34:24,660 Mr. Norland, what were the denominations of those bills? 622 00:34:24,791 --> 00:34:28,696 _100 each. 623 00:34:28,826 --> 00:34:32,798 Lieutenant Anderson, can you identify this envelope 624 00:34:32,928 --> 00:34:35,265 and its contents for me, please? 625 00:34:36,664 --> 00:34:41,070 Yes, the 20 brand-new _1 OO bills l found in the defendant's purse 626 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,368 after Lieutenant Tragg turned her over to me. 627 00:34:43,501 --> 00:34:45,203 And what about this second envelope? 628 00:34:45,335 --> 00:34:48,840 This is a second group of 20 _1 OO bills 629 00:34:48,971 --> 00:34:51,475 l found in the defendant's apartment 630 00:34:51,606 --> 00:34:54,242 when l searched it after her arrest. 631 00:34:56,642 --> 00:34:59,747 On the day before Mr. Kraft died, he came into our bank 632 00:34:59,878 --> 00:35:03,148 and drew out _2,OOO in _100 bills. 633 00:35:03,279 --> 00:35:05,548 And then the ne_ day he did the same thing-- 634 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,383 drew out _2,OOO in _100 bills. 635 00:35:08,516 --> 00:35:10,652 How do you happen to recall this? 636 00:35:10,783 --> 00:35:13,353 On the second day l had to open a new bundle of bills to give him. 637 00:35:13,484 --> 00:35:16,822 Now those 20 _1 OO bills were brand new, 638 00:35:16,953 --> 00:35:18,255 fresh from the Mint, 639 00:35:18,387 --> 00:35:21,024 just like the ones they found in Miss Carter's purse there. 640 00:35:21,157 --> 00:35:24,227 l tell you, my sister didn't steal those bills from old man Kraft. 641 00:35:24,357 --> 00:35:26,059 How do you know that, Mr. Carter? 642 00:35:26,192 --> 00:35:29,797 Because, well l put them in her purs? myself. 643 00:35:29,928 --> 00:35:31,563 l knew the police had questioned her 644 00:35:31,695 --> 00:35:33,764 and l was afraid they'd find them when they questioned me. 645 00:35:33,897 --> 00:35:37,569 - And where did you get the bills? - l found them in the store in a book. 646 00:35:37,698 --> 00:35:40,168 Once before when l was working there in the store 647 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,037 l found some other bills in a book in the same section, 648 00:35:43,169 --> 00:35:46,307 but they had disappeared before l had a chance to take them. 649 00:35:46,436 --> 00:35:48,138 But after that l kept looking. 650 00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:50,841 [chuckles] And the money that was found hidden 651 00:35:50,973 --> 00:35:54,410 in the apartment you share with your sister-- did you find that in a book too? 652 00:35:54,542 --> 00:35:55,876 l don't know anything about that. 653 00:35:56,009 --> 00:35:58,113 l submit you do, Mr. Carter. 654 00:35:58,243 --> 00:36:03,149 l submit you and your sister obtained all that money from Mr. Kraft 655 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,117 either by theft or by blackmail. Now which was it? 656 00:36:06,247 --> 00:36:09,285 Neither! Besides, what can you blackmail out of old man Kraft? 657 00:36:09,416 --> 00:36:11,152 Second-hand books? 658 00:36:11,284 --> 00:36:13,387 Perhaps not _1 million, Mr. Burger, 659 00:36:13,518 --> 00:36:16,522 but Joseph Kraft's ''substitution racket,'' as you called it, 660 00:36:16,654 --> 00:36:19,225 certainly netted him many many thousands of dollars. 661 00:36:19,355 --> 00:36:22,893 My latest check with the library shows 21 first editions missing. 662 00:36:23,025 --> 00:36:25,261 And other substitutions will be found, l'm sure. 663 00:36:25,392 --> 00:36:28,396 Since the defense will not doubt claim that there is a connection 664 00:36:28,527 --> 00:36:33,401 between the death of Joseph Kraft and this racket that he was engaged in, 665 00:36:33,530 --> 00:36:35,799 how in your opinion, Professor, 666 00:36:35,932 --> 00:36:39,470 was Kraft able to engineer all these book substitutions? 667 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,305 l hate to say this, but l think he must have had help. 668 00:36:44,970 --> 00:36:47,908 You gotta believe me-- l wasn't in the racket at all. 669 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:50,942 Maybe thinking about getting in, you know, but, well, not in. 670 00:36:51,074 --> 00:36:54,813 Now the appointment l heard you make to see Mr. Kraft on the day of his death-- 671 00:36:54,943 --> 00:36:56,210 you kept that appointment, did you not? 672 00:36:56,343 --> 00:36:59,647 No. Well, l-- l started to, 673 00:36:59,778 --> 00:37:02,115 but when l saw a police car out front, l ducked out, went home. 674 00:37:02,246 --> 00:37:05,618 Well, then the copy of Tristam Shandy you and Mr. Kraft were examining, 675 00:37:05,748 --> 00:37:07,750 what became of that? 676 00:37:07,883 --> 00:37:09,051 Ask her. 677 00:37:09,184 --> 00:37:12,489 She knows the answer to that. She got rid of the book, not me. 678 00:37:12,619 --> 00:37:14,388 l know it was wrong. 679 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,425 But when that detective, Mr. Drake, came nosing around, l was frightened. 680 00:37:18,555 --> 00:37:21,259 So l burnt the book and threw the ashes in the trash. 681 00:37:21,390 --> 00:37:24,595 [Burger] Well, that was an expensive fire, wasn't it, Miss Chute? 682 00:37:24,726 --> 00:37:28,063 Didn't you say you were paid _500 apiece 683 00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:30,231 to alter those first editions that Kraft sent you? 684 00:37:30,362 --> 00:37:31,296 Yes. 685 00:37:31,429 --> 00:37:33,599 How much did he pay the mysterious person 686 00:37:33,731 --> 00:37:36,601 - that he told you actually did the stealing? - He never said. 687 00:37:36,732 --> 00:37:40,404 Couldn't this mysterious person have been your friend Gene Torg? 688 00:37:40,535 --> 00:37:45,074 Gene? He couldn't get into a library disguised as William Shakespeare. 689 00:37:45,204 --> 00:37:47,875 Now Miss Chute, about the defendant, 690 00:37:48,006 --> 00:37:50,776 did Mr. Kraft say anything to you about her 691 00:37:50,907 --> 00:37:53,411 during any of the days immediately preceding his death? 692 00:37:53,542 --> 00:37:55,578 He did just the day before. 693 00:37:55,710 --> 00:38:00,284 He told me he knew she'd been lying to him to get money out of him. 694 00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:03,750 He said that she'd been using her brother as an excuse 695 00:38:03,881 --> 00:38:06,986 and that he was going to get rid of her before she tried anything worse. 696 00:38:07,117 --> 00:38:09,019 Cross examine. 697 00:38:12,586 --> 00:38:14,355 On the day Joseph Kraft died, 698 00:38:14,487 --> 00:38:16,990 you went to see him in response to his phone call 699 00:38:17,122 --> 00:38:19,993 about Gene Torg. What time was that? 700 00:38:20,124 --> 00:38:22,060 About 5:45, l think. 701 00:38:22,192 --> 00:38:23,827 He'd just come back from the corner restaurant. 702 00:38:23,959 --> 00:38:25,494 [Mason] What time did you leave the bookstore? 703 00:38:25,627 --> 00:38:28,365 Not later than 6:OO, l'd say. 704 00:38:28,495 --> 00:38:30,564 Mr. Kraft was never good for more than ten or 15 minutes 705 00:38:30,696 --> 00:38:32,131 of staying awake after supper. 706 00:38:32,265 --> 00:38:35,135 You seem quite familiar with Mr. Kraft's habits, Miss Chute. 707 00:38:35,267 --> 00:38:37,536 Well, l've known him for a number of years. 708 00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:40,671 ln fact, you were once quite close to Mr. Kraft, isn't that right? 709 00:38:40,802 --> 00:38:44,140 So close you even spoke to your hairdresser about the possibility 710 00:38:44,272 --> 00:38:46,875 of a marriage to ''a rich old goat''? 711 00:38:47,006 --> 00:38:51,045 Oh, yes, l knew he was rich all right. Over _100,OOO he'd saved. 712 00:38:51,175 --> 00:38:53,111 But he wasn't about to share it with anyone else 713 00:38:53,243 --> 00:38:55,212 who was in on the book racket. 714 00:38:55,343 --> 00:38:58,381 Because l heard him telling the defendant once 715 00:38:58,512 --> 00:39:00,481 how much money he had in the bank, 716 00:39:00,613 --> 00:39:03,584 and that if she minded her Ps and Qs, they'd just keep it in the family; 717 00:39:03,715 --> 00:39:06,051 she'd get every bit. 718 00:39:07,084 --> 00:39:09,954 The rule is much the same in every big library, Mr. Mason-- 719 00:39:10,085 --> 00:39:14,192 anyone using the rare-book collection either must be known to us 720 00:39:14,321 --> 00:39:16,357 or have the proper credentials. 721 00:39:16,489 --> 00:39:19,259 And either known or with the proper credentials, 722 00:39:19,390 --> 00:39:22,294 - they still must sign this register? - Here at least they must. 723 00:39:22,425 --> 00:39:25,463 Wouldn't the proper credentials be rather easy to forge? 724 00:39:25,594 --> 00:39:28,732 But then the autograph also would have to be forged. 725 00:39:28,863 --> 00:39:31,533 You and the police both went over this, Mr. Drake. 726 00:39:31,664 --> 00:39:34,635 But l didn't. And there's something in these back pages 727 00:39:34,766 --> 00:39:36,502 l want to look for, Paul. 728 00:39:36,633 --> 00:39:38,369 Wait a minute, wait a minute-- there's a page missing. 729 00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:42,240 10th, 9th-- the 8th is gone, 730 00:39:42,369 --> 00:39:44,038 torn out. 731 00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:46,441 lt must have been done recently, 732 00:39:46,572 --> 00:39:50,010 because a man from the District Attorney's omice was here only yesterday looking at it. 733 00:39:50,142 --> 00:39:54,114 Perry, the 8th-- that was just the day before Mr. Kraft died. 734 00:39:55,644 --> 00:39:58,482 l want to see today's entries. 735 00:40:01,414 --> 00:40:03,851 Ashcraft, Jorgensen, Ba_er, 736 00:40:03,983 --> 00:40:07,020 Freilinghurst, Lawrence, Weigel, Norland. 737 00:40:07,151 --> 00:40:08,786 Peter Norland. 738 00:40:12,321 --> 00:40:15,759 Doesn't this come under the general heading of breaking and entering? 739 00:40:15,889 --> 00:40:18,960 Mmm, Ellen gave me her key. 740 00:40:19,091 --> 00:40:21,093 Besides, we have Lieutenant Tragg's permission. 741 00:40:21,225 --> 00:40:22,860 That was ten days ago. 742 00:40:22,993 --> 00:40:25,163 He didn't set any time limit. 743 00:40:30,165 --> 00:40:32,067 [doorknob turns] 744 00:40:32,199 --> 00:40:35,804 [classical music playing] 745 00:40:47,207 --> 00:40:49,711 [light switch clicks] 746 00:41:05,317 --> 00:41:08,655 Thanks. He got away, but at least l got in one punch. 747 00:41:08,785 --> 00:41:09,920 - You all right? - Yeah. 748 00:41:10,053 --> 00:41:12,256 - Did you see who it was. - No. 749 00:41:12,387 --> 00:41:16,660 All right, Paul, you watch the omice while l go into the washroom. 750 00:41:16,790 --> 00:41:19,761 - Watch the office? - Watch the office. 751 00:41:25,795 --> 00:41:28,666 - [switch clicks] - [classical music playing] 752 00:41:30,366 --> 00:41:33,737 Well, that proves the flies were right all along. 753 00:41:33,867 --> 00:41:35,535 The flies were right? 754 00:41:35,668 --> 00:41:38,304 l want a couple dozen in the morning. 755 00:41:38,435 --> 00:41:41,306 A couple of dozen flies? 756 00:41:45,254 --> 00:41:46,823 All right, Mr. Mason, 757 00:41:46,956 --> 00:41:50,227 the witnesses have been excluded from the courtroom as you requested. 758 00:41:50,358 --> 00:41:51,525 You may proceed. 759 00:41:51,658 --> 00:41:53,193 Your Honor. 760 00:41:53,325 --> 00:41:55,762 With Lieutenant Tragg to check me should l go wrong, 761 00:41:55,894 --> 00:42:00,868 let us assume that this is the omice of Joseph Kraft on the evening of the murder. 762 00:42:09,736 --> 00:42:13,508 We know that Mr. Kraft Iocked himself in at about 6:OO. 763 00:42:13,637 --> 00:42:16,007 At T:OO, according to what we've heard, 764 00:42:16,138 --> 00:42:18,040 he woke from a nap. 765 00:42:18,172 --> 00:42:20,543 lt was cold and dark. 766 00:42:23,476 --> 00:42:26,781 So he turned on his reading light, the heater and the radio. 767 00:42:26,911 --> 00:42:30,784 Shortly thereafter followed the trick with the gas meter, 768 00:42:30,914 --> 00:42:33,317 putting out the pilot light, 769 00:42:33,448 --> 00:42:35,551 thus allowing the gas to escape, 770 00:42:35,683 --> 00:42:38,754 killing Kraft and the only other living thing present, 771 00:42:38,885 --> 00:42:41,489 some ordinary house flies. 772 00:42:41,620 --> 00:42:43,489 [Tragg] But there were no dead flies on the floor; 773 00:42:43,621 --> 00:42:46,458 only on the sills of the two windows. 774 00:42:50,492 --> 00:42:52,862 [Mason] Which proves there must have been enough daylight 775 00:42:52,993 --> 00:42:55,229 to attract the flies to the windows. 776 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,630 Now according to the Weather Bureau, 777 00:42:57,763 --> 00:43:01,135 twilight e_ended only to 6:40 that particular evening, 778 00:43:01,264 --> 00:43:04,969 so the gas had to have been released prior to that time. 779 00:43:05,099 --> 00:43:08,070 ln other words, Joseph Kraft was killed before T:OO. 780 00:43:08,201 --> 00:43:12,273 Mr. Mason, how do you suggest that a dead man 781 00:43:12,404 --> 00:43:14,406 inside a locked room 782 00:43:14,538 --> 00:43:18,310 could have turned on his lamp and his radio after T:OO? 783 00:43:18,441 --> 00:43:22,113 Also in the washroom, Mr. Burger, is the fuse box for the bookstore. 784 00:43:22,243 --> 00:43:24,779 The killer pulled the fuse to the omice, 785 00:43:24,911 --> 00:43:27,749 then turned on the lamp and the radio in that omice 786 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,415 before Mr. Kraft had even entered it, 787 00:43:29,547 --> 00:43:31,783 perhaps while he was out having supper. 788 00:43:31,915 --> 00:43:36,389 Then at T:OO, with Kraft either unconscious or dead, 789 00:43:36,518 --> 00:43:40,257 the killer simply replaced the fuse. 790 00:43:40,386 --> 00:43:43,290 And on came the lamp and the radio. 791 00:43:43,422 --> 00:43:47,594 Your Honor, at this time may we call the witnesses 792 00:43:47,724 --> 00:43:50,227 - back to the courtroom? - Bailim? 793 00:43:57,530 --> 00:44:01,102 First l would like to call the state's expert... 794 00:44:01,231 --> 00:44:04,101 Professor Muntz to the stand. 795 00:44:07,969 --> 00:44:12,108 All right, yes yes, l was in the store last night. 796 00:44:12,237 --> 00:44:14,239 l realized sooner or later they'd discover 797 00:44:14,372 --> 00:44:16,308 that l was the one who'd been stealing the books, 798 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,378 so l was afraid they'd charge me with Kraft's murder. 799 00:44:19,508 --> 00:44:21,677 l knew Miss Carter must be innocent, 800 00:44:21,810 --> 00:44:25,816 so l set about trying to find out what really happened, and l ended up with this. 801 00:44:25,946 --> 00:44:27,748 Let me see if l understand 802 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,817 how this substitution racket of yours worked, Professor Muntz. 803 00:44:30,949 --> 00:44:34,019 That's some expert witness. Who recommended him? 804 00:44:37,585 --> 00:44:40,222 Who recommended him? 805 00:44:40,353 --> 00:44:42,189 Perry Mason. 806 00:44:42,321 --> 00:44:45,092 [Muntz] ...leave the stolen volume in a shelf in the store... 807 00:44:45,223 --> 00:44:48,460 A man named Perry Mason. 808 00:44:48,592 --> 00:44:50,026 [Mason] ...no longer be identified. 809 00:44:50,158 --> 00:44:52,996 - [Muntz] Well, l had no part in that. - Perry Mason. 810 00:44:53,127 --> 00:44:56,866 How did Mr. Kraft pay your _2,OOO fee for having stolen the book? 811 00:44:56,996 --> 00:44:59,233 By placing the money in an agreed-upon volume 812 00:44:59,364 --> 00:45:01,600 in the English Literature section of the store. 813 00:45:01,732 --> 00:45:05,637 Did you get the _2,OOO _or the Tristam Shandy? 814 00:45:05,768 --> 00:45:09,440 No. When l looked, it wasn't there. l telephoned Kraft. 815 00:45:09,570 --> 00:45:11,840 He said someone must have taken it-- someone he thought he knew. 816 00:45:11,972 --> 00:45:14,709 Did he agree to leave another _2,OOO there for you? 817 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,277 Yes. And when l looked, that wasn't there either. 818 00:45:17,408 --> 00:45:20,412 Now Professor 819 00:45:20,543 --> 00:45:23,780 where were you between 6:OO and T:OO on the evening of the murder? 820 00:45:23,911 --> 00:45:27,182 Oddly enough, l was giving a talk 821 00:45:27,313 --> 00:45:29,450 on rare books of the 18th century 822 00:45:29,582 --> 00:45:31,818 before the Librarians' Club. 823 00:45:34,417 --> 00:45:39,057 And you still maintain you know nothing about the _2,OOO found in the apartment? 824 00:45:39,186 --> 00:45:41,022 - That's the truth, Mr. Mason. - All right. 825 00:45:41,154 --> 00:45:46,061 Where were you between 6:OO and T:OO on the day Mr. Kraft was killed? 826 00:45:46,190 --> 00:45:48,827 ln a poker game. l was there all day. 827 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,063 6:OO to T:OO? That's easy. 828 00:45:51,193 --> 00:45:54,531 l stopped to have my hair done on the way home from seeing Mr. Kraft. 829 00:45:54,662 --> 00:45:56,331 l know it sounds like l'm kidding, 830 00:45:56,463 --> 00:46:00,769 but l was getting a haircut, shave, shampoo, manicure-- the works-- at that same time. 831 00:46:00,899 --> 00:46:04,705 Yes, l was in the bookstore that evening from 6:OO to T:OO. 832 00:46:04,835 --> 00:46:06,236 l've never denied that. 833 00:46:06,369 --> 00:46:09,106 And part of this time you were alone in the store? 834 00:46:09,237 --> 00:46:12,675 l suppose. Business is generally slack then. 835 00:46:12,806 --> 00:46:16,178 Now when you and Miss Carter 836 00:46:16,307 --> 00:46:19,011 heard Kraft turn his radio on, 837 00:46:19,144 --> 00:46:20,980 where were you? 838 00:46:21,111 --> 00:46:24,950 Just returning from the washroom, perhaps? 839 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,085 Well, l suppose, if Miss Carter claims. 840 00:46:29,214 --> 00:46:32,152 No supposing, Mr. Pickson, you were there. 841 00:46:32,283 --> 00:46:35,955 You started the radio going by replacing the fuse to Kraft's omice. 842 00:46:36,086 --> 00:46:39,391 By the time the radio warmed up, you had joined Miss Carter. 843 00:46:39,521 --> 00:46:41,357 But he wasn't dead then. 844 00:46:41,488 --> 00:46:45,228 lf he wasn't dead, Mr. Pickson, he certainly was well on his way to being dead-- 845 00:46:45,358 --> 00:46:47,461 dead through your manipulation of the gas line-- 846 00:46:47,592 --> 00:46:48,827 No. No! 847 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,962 --turned om and then on again 848 00:46:51,095 --> 00:46:54,166 after you had sneaked out into the alley and peered through a window 849 00:46:54,296 --> 00:46:55,530 to make sure he was asleep. 850 00:46:55,663 --> 00:46:59,001 No! No one saw me. 851 00:47:01,567 --> 00:47:04,838 l'd hated him for years. 852 00:47:05,836 --> 00:47:09,741 But do you know what the final straw was? 853 00:47:09,871 --> 00:47:12,809 [chuckles] 854 00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:17,414 He called me a thief. 855 00:47:17,543 --> 00:47:19,445 He was going to dismiss me 856 00:47:19,577 --> 00:47:22,782 for finding that _2,OOO in the book 857 00:47:22,913 --> 00:47:25,850 and refusing to give it to him. 858 00:47:26,881 --> 00:47:30,152 l felt that, under the circumstances, 859 00:47:30,283 --> 00:47:32,719 it was finder's keepers. 860 00:47:32,851 --> 00:47:36,456 l didn't know it was his money. l didn't know anything about that. 861 00:47:38,354 --> 00:47:43,260 l'd been plotting the old pirate's murder for a long time 862 00:47:43,390 --> 00:47:46,661 as a sort of enjoyable mental exercise. 863 00:47:50,327 --> 00:47:53,365 Only it wasn't quite so... 864 00:47:53,496 --> 00:47:56,601 enjoyable after all. 865 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,136 Here you are, Mr. Mason. 866 00:48:02,268 --> 00:48:04,704 What you originally started out to get-- 867 00:48:04,835 --> 00:48:09,742 the missing volume 6 o_ Manning and Granger's Reports. 868 00:48:09,871 --> 00:48:14,545 - And with it, my lifelong thanks. - That's very nice, Ellen. 869 00:48:14,674 --> 00:48:17,445 l'm going to have a lifelong question in my head, Perry, 870 00:48:17,577 --> 00:48:19,045 if you don't tell me. 871 00:48:19,178 --> 00:48:21,814 Who put the _2,OOO in Ellen's apartment? 872 00:48:21,945 --> 00:48:24,983 l can answer that one-- Pickson to implicate her. 873 00:48:25,114 --> 00:48:27,617 He says it's the only thing he's really sorry for. 874 00:48:27,748 --> 00:48:29,685 But Perry, how did you get on to the fact 875 00:48:29,817 --> 00:48:31,519 that Professor Muntz was in on that book thing? 876 00:48:31,651 --> 00:48:35,990 When l discovered the Cosgrove library had a very famous collection of Sterne, 877 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,958 it bothered me that our expert hadn't quite seemed to know about it. 878 00:48:39,089 --> 00:48:43,195 Then when l saw his signature several times in their register... 879 00:48:43,324 --> 00:48:46,128 All we noticed was Peter Norland's name. 880 00:48:46,259 --> 00:48:50,765 l guess Peter thought we weren't solving things quite fast enough. 881 00:48:50,895 --> 00:48:54,199 He figured he might be able to identify the thief through his handwriting. 882 00:48:54,330 --> 00:48:57,868 Oh, of all the silly things to do. Why? 883 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,203 Let's ask him why. 884 00:49:00,334 --> 00:49:03,237 Peter, what's the real reason 885 00:49:03,370 --> 00:49:06,975 you're hanging around and inte_ering so much? 886 00:49:09,805 --> 00:49:12,910 Well, now if you'd really like to know, 887 00:49:13,041 --> 00:49:16,312 l've been trying to get up enough nerve 888 00:49:16,443 --> 00:49:20,115 to ask Miss Carter to marry me. 889 00:49:30,151 --> 00:49:33,255 [theme music playing] 890 00:49:33,305 --> 00:49:37,855 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0